Altered resting state functional connectivity of fear and reward circuitry in comorbid PTSD and major depression

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 641-650

  Zhu, Xi ^a,b   Helpman, Liat ^a,b   Papini, Santiago ^c   Schneier, Franklin ^a,b   Markowitz, John C ^a,b   Van Meter, Page E ^a   Lindquist, Martin A ^d   Wager, Tor D ^e   Neria, Yuval ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; depression; fear processing; MDD; nucleus accumbens; PTSD; resting state functional connectivity; reward processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CENTROMEDIAL AMYGDALA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REWARD; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTOME; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REWARD; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85007496267     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22594     Document Type: Article

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